camera

From New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room; from Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”). Doublet of chamber.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæməɹə/, /ˈkæmɹə/

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• Hyphenation: ca‧me‧ra

camera (plural cameras)

1. A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
   • 2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:

     The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. It’s therefore not surprising that most cameras mimic this arrangement.

2. (computer graphics, video games) The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
   • 2003, Tom Meigs, Ultimate game design: building game worlds

     If you're building a third-person game with enclosed or tight spaces, try to figure out up front what camera problems you will likely encounter. Use this identification process to influence the early building process.

   • 2006, Patrick O'Luanaigh, Game Design Complete

     I'm talking about the way the camera flies up above the skater when you leap into the air. No one had done it before.

3. A vaulted room.
4. The judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.

• camerated

• → Irish: ceamara

• camera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• camera in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• camera in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• camera at OneLook Dictionary Search

Borrowed from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), from Latin camera (“chamber, bedchamber”).

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• Hyphenation: ca‧me‧ra

camera f (plural camera's, diminutive cameraatje n)

1. camera

• digitale camera
• fotocamera
• spiegelreflexcamera
• videocamera

camera

1. third-person singular simple future of camer

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.me.ra/

camera (plural cameras)

1. room, chamber

From Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára).

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camera f (plural camere)

1. room; chamber (all senses)
2. bedroom
3. assembly, parliament
4. camera (for taking moving pictures)

   Synonym: telecamera

• camerlengo

• macera

From Latin camera.

camera f (plural cameres)

1. chamber, room

From Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”).

• camara (classical)
• cambra (Medieval)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.me.ra/, [ˈka.mɛ.ra]

camera f (genitive camerae); first declension

1. A chamber in its various senses, including:
   1. A room, especially a vaulted room, a vault.
   2. A deliberative body.

First declension.

• camella
• camera obscura

• camera in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• camera in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• camera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• camera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• chamber in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

A regularly conjugated form of camerō (verb).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.me.raː/, [ˈka.mɛ.raː]

camerā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of camerō

camera f

1. definite nominative and accusative singular of cameră